Bob Marley Net Worth

Bob Marley Net Worth is$130 Million

Bob Marley Bio/Wiki 2018

Nesta Robert Marley, popularly called Bob Marley is among the best musicians we’ve ever seen. He’s a singer and songwriter in the Caribbean Island nation of Jamaica. In fact, he has become an icon not just in reggae, but in music across all music genres at the same time. He has sold more than 75 million records across the world. Marley is so renowned in Jamaica that there is even a statue of him in Kingston. He could play lots of instruments, including guitar, piano, saxophone, harmonica, percussion, and also the horn. Through the years Bob has produced lots of tunes, most of which went on to become huge hits.

Bob Marley Net Worth $130 Million

The music that Bob produced was greatly influenced by societal dilemmas. Frequently, he’d give voice to cultural and political dilemmas of Jamaica. But most of those dilemmas had a global appeal. This is the reason individuals from throughout the planet could relate to his work. That was one reason why he was so popular. And naturally another reason was that Marley certainly excelled at his work.

Regrettably, Bob Marley didn’t live for too long. He expired in the age of 36 on 11th May 1981. He died of cancer. His final words to his son were, “Money can’t purchase life”.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Order of Merit, Peace Medal of the Third World, Redemption Song, No Woman No Cry, One Love

Music Groups

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Nominations

Grammy Award for Best Music Film, Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Billboard Music Award for Catalog Artist of the Year, Redemption Song, No Woman No Cry, One Love

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Trademark

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Gibson Epiphone

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Started every performance by proclaiming the divinity of Jah Rastafari

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Always had his hair in dreadlocks

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Quote

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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

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[on marijuana] Herb? Herb is a plant. Herb is so good for everything. Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?

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[on politics] Well, everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

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Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

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I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.

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My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

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Fact

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Bob's home for his music publishing for 10 years, most of his writing life, was Cayman Music, run by Danny Sims and Johnny Nash who also signed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer as well as many of Jamaica's most prominent artists and writers of the time.

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He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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His mother, Cedella (Malcolm), who was of African descent, was born in Jamaica, to Alberta Willoughby and Omeriah Malcolm. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, to Ellen Bloomfield and Albert Thomas Marley, who had English ancestry.

Inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture (11 November 2004).

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Tuff Gong was his nickname, given to him due to his reputed physical strength. Later, Marley started his own music production company and named it Tuff Gong.

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Lived in Germany for a few months in 1981 for treatment for his cancer.

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His youngest child, a daughter named Makeda, was born to Yvette Anderson 11 days after he died.

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During the last months of his life, he suffered from very serious seizures.

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Was named by his father Nesta Robert Marley after his brother who, when Bob was just born, wanted to adopt him.

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Was an avid and passionate footballer.

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Was a Rastafarian.

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The lyrics of his song "War" is a speech given in the United Nations by the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.

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Was given a state funeral in Jamaica.

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Suffered from a form of skin cancer called malignant melanoma, which is not common among black people. It's widely believed that Marley got this form of skin cancer because his father was white.

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Refused amputation of his cancer-affected toe due to his religious beliefs.

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Lived in the United States shortly in 1966.

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It was announced that his wife plans to have his remains exhumed and moved to Ethiopia (January 2005).

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Following the attempt on his life, he left Jamaica and lived in England between 1976 and 1978. In England he did not live with his wife Rita, but with Jamaican beauty queen Cindy Breakspeare. In fact, the song "Turn Your Lights Down Low" was written for her. They had a son together, Damian Marley.

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His song 'Rasta Man Chant' is a traditional Rastafarian chant, known to every adherent of the faith.

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Considered by many to be the first superstar from the Third World.

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Was voted the third greatest lyricist of all time by BBC News Online users, following Bob Dylan and John Lennon (May 2001).

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Was arrested in England for possession of a joint of a marijuana.

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His album 'Exodus' was chosen by Time magazine as the greatest album of the 20th century.

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Son of Cedella Marley.

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He was voted the 11th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

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His song "One Love" has been used extensively for Jamaican tourism commercials.

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Born to Norval Sinclair Marley (1895-1955), a Jamaican Marine officer and captain of Welsh descent, who later became a plantation overseer, and his wife Cedella Marley.

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He is buried in a crypt at Nine Miles, near his birthplace, with his Gibson Les Paul Guitar, a soccer ball, a cannabis bud, and a Bible.

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His granddaughter Selah Louise was born on 18 November 1998.

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His grandson Zion David was born on 3 August 1997.

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A vegetarian.

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His posthumously released anthology collection "Legend" is one of the highest selling "greatest hits" recordings by a solo artist.

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His albums are in the process of digital remastering and are being re-released with additional material such as alternate versions and unused demos.

Marley was awarded the International Peace Medal by the African delegation to the United Nations in 1978. He was also an official guest at Zimbabwe's independence celebration two years later, an honor Marley was quoted as saying was the highest he'd ever received.